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The marshallian demand curve includes:

A. Substitution Effect

B. Income Effect

C. Both substitution and income effect

D. None of them

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C. Both substitution and income effect


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Which of the following curves is a rectangular hyperbola?

A. ATC

B. AVC

C. AFC

D. None of the above

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In Edgeworth model, prices oscillate between:

A. Firms and industry price

B. Monopoly and duopoly price

C. Competitive and monopoly price

D. None of the above

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All of the following are capital resources except:

A. Warehouses

B. Buildings

C. Dams

D. Share of stock

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If the consumers expect that the price of computers will decrease in next year then:

A. Current demand for computers will fall

B. Current demand for computers will rise

C. Current demand will change unpredictably

D. Current supply of computers will rise

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The Lambda or Langrange Multiplier is a:

A. Analyst

B. Catalyst

C. Pessimist

D. Optimist

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Who wrote Economics of Imperfect Competition?

A. E.H.Chamberlin

B. Joan Robinson

C. E.A.G.Robinson

D. J.M.Keynes

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Under pure monopoly, there will be:

A. No distinction between firm and industry

B. One firm and no industry

C. No firm and no industry

D. None of the above

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The game theory was basically presented by:

A. Ricardo

B. Marshal

C. Neomann and Morgenstern

D. Karl Marx

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Necessary condition for consumer equilibrium is:

A.

B.

C.

D.

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Which of the following is not characteristic of perfect competition?

A. Freedom of entry and exit

B. Each seller is a price taker

C. Perfect information about prices

D. Heterogeneous products

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The act of producing the output from more than one plant is concerned with:

A. Monopoly

B. Multi-plant monopoly

C. Bilateral monopoly

D. Price discrimination

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Extension (expansion) and contraction of demand are result of:

A. Change in consumers income

B. Change in consumers tastes

C. Change in price

D. None of the above

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If X and Y are close substitutes, a rise in the price of X will lead to:

A. Increase in demand for Y

B. Decrease in demand for Y

C. Decrease in demand for both X and Y

D. No change in demand for Y

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In Edgeworth model, if price falls below competitive price, the demand is:

A. More than maximum output

B. More than minimum output

C. Less than maximum output

D. Less than minimum output

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Normal profits are considered as:

A. Explicit costs

B. Implicit costs

C. Social costs

D. Private cost

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Technological Progress (Invention) can be defined as:

A. Technological progress shifts the production function by allowing the firm to achieve more output from a given combination of inputs (or the same output with fewer inputs)

B. Technological progress shifts the production function by allowing the firm to achieve less output from a given combination of inputs (or the same output with more inputs)

C. Technological progress shifts the import function to the right

D. None of the above

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In constant sum game (zero sum game), if there are two parties then:

A. Both parties make better-off

B. Both parties make worse-off

C. Both parties become Neutral

D. One party can become better off only if another is made worse off

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If the price of product A decreases and in the result the demand for product B increases then we can say that:

A. A and B are substitute goods

B. A and B are complementary goods

C. A is an inferior good

D. B is an inferior good

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The concept of industry in monopolistic competition has been replaced by:

A. Firm

B. Product group

C. Producers

D. Shopkeepers

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Any straight line supply which cuts the x-axis will have:

A. Zero elasticity

B. An elasticity greater than one

C. Unitary elasticity of supply

D. An elasticity less than one

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Which of the following is called Gossens first law?

A. Law of production

B. The Law of Equi-Marginal Utility

C. The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

D. Law of Variable Proportions

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Labor theory was firstly rejected by:

A. Adam Smith

B. Karl Marx

C. Ricardo

D. Pigou

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We get constant returns to scale when:

A. a = ½

B. � = ½

C. Both of them

D. None of them

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Identify the factor, which generally keeps the price elasticity of demand for a commodity low:

A. Variety of uses for that commodity

B. Its low price

C. Close substitutes for that commodity

D. High proportion of the consumers income spent on it

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The addition or increment to the total cost involvesd in expanding or contracting output by one unit is called:

A. Fixed cost per unit

B. Variable cost per unit

C. Total cost per unit

D. Marginal cost

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Marginal revenue from a given output:

A. The price at which the marginal unit sells

B. Total revenue sale of all units divided by volume of sales

C. Average revenue of total output average revenue of last unit

D. The change in total revenue resulting from the sale of one unit more of output

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The long-run average cost is based on the fact that:

A. None of the factors are variable in the long-run

B. All factors are perfectly divisible in the long-run

C. None of the factors is divisible

D. Management factor is indivisible while all other factors are divisible and can be varied in long-run

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Which is not a central problem of an economy?

A. What to produce

B. How to produce

C. How to maximize private profit

D. For whom to produce

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Because of selling costs, the demand curve of a firm shifts:

A. Downward

B. Upward

C. Horizontal

D. Straight line

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Variable costs refer to:

A. Capital cost plus operating costs

B. Capital costs alone

C. Capital costs plus spill-over costs

D. Operating costs alone